Colette Baron-Reid

Colette Baron-Reid was born in 1958 in Toronto to a French, German and Polish mother and a Serbian father who worked as a land developer and engineer, and was educated at Havergal College. She left home at eighteen to sing in bar and nightclub bands for roughly a decade, signing and losing several record and management deals along the way, while struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction.

She entered recovery around 1986 and has described more than three decades of sobriety since. After recovery she worked in aromatherapy and began offering readings based on visions she said she experienced, and released a meditation tape in 1998 before a chance connection with music producer Eric Rosse led to a recording contract with EMI Music Canada. She released two albums, Magdalene's Garden in 2001 and I Am/Grace in 2005, before the contract ended in 2006.

That year she turned to writing and card deck publishing with Hay House, eventually creating nineteen oracle decks that have sold more than two million copies combined, alongside books including The Map and Remembering The Future. She has hosted television and radio programs, including Messages From Spirit and a long running Hay House Radio show, and has appeared on Dr. Phil, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Oz Show. Baron-Reid presents her work as intuitive counseling and psychic medium practice, a claim outside mainstream scientific consensus that she frames through her own recovery and creative history rather than through verifiable demonstration.

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Colette Baron-Reid frames her recovery, not her recording contract, as the real foundation of her later career. She entered recovery from alcohol and cocaine addiction around 1986, and by her own account has maintained thirty nine years of continuous sobriety since, a span that covers essentially her entire transition from touring musician to television host and oracle deck publisher. Where her first years after recovery involved aromatherapy work and informal readings based on visions she described experiencing, the decades that followed built into a structured teaching practice rather than only a publishing one.

She founded The Oracle School Experience, a training program for readers working with oracle cards, alongside OraclePalooza and the DreamQuest Platinum Mastermind, extending her work from selling decks toward certifying and coaching the people who use them, a step beyond what most of her fellow Hay House oracle authors have built. She hosts the television program Messages From Spirit on Amazon Prime and YouTube, carrying the same televised reading format she first developed for Dr. Phil, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Oz Show appearances into an ongoing show she runs herself rather than appears as a guest on.

The arc runs in one direction: from a nightclub singer with two failed EMI albums and active addiction, through recovery, to a self built teaching institution training the next generation of the same intuitive practice she once learned informally on her own.